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Nick Saporito

Create a clipping mask with Affinity Photo for iPad
How To Make A Clipping Mask with Affinity Photo for The iPad
 How To Make A Clipping Mask with Affinity Photo for The iPad 800 470 Nick Saporito
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One of the many ways in which you can use your iPad to edit photos is by creating clipping masks with them, and in this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to make a clipping mask with Affinity Photo for the iPad. In short, a clipping mask is when you take one object (such as a…

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Remove a background with Affinity Photo
How To Quickly Remove A Background In Affinity Photo
 How To Quickly Remove A Background In Affinity Photo 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Of all the different ways you can edit an image, one of the most common edits you may be looking to make is removing its background. This is an essential function for any graphic designer, and today we’ll be exploring exactly how to do so in Affinity Designer. Thanks to the Selection Brush — a…

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Change an image's color with Procreate
How To Change An Image’s Color In Procreate for The iPad
 How To Change An Image’s Color In Procreate for The iPad 800 470 Nick Saporito
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If you’ve ever wanted to change the color of an object in a photo then today you’re in luck. In this tutorial I’ll be using one of Procreate’s many color adjustment abilities to demonstrate how you can change an image’s color in Procreate for the iPad. By the end of this lesson you will have…

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How to offset a path with Illustrator
How To Offset A Path In Illustrator | The Complete Guide
 How To Offset A Path In Illustrator | The Complete Guide 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to offset a path in Illustrator, which will allow you to add (or remove) an equal amount of space around an object’s edges. What Is Path Offsetting? In short, path offsetting is a way of changing an object’s size by adding or removing space around its edges,…

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How to make gradients with Procreate
How To Make A Gradient In Procreate | Linear and Radial
 How To Make A Gradient In Procreate | Linear and Radial 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Although Procreate doesn’t come with any tools or features that directly allow you to create gradients, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done manually. It also doesn’t mean that it can’t be done with ease either. The brilliance in Procreate’s simplicity will be on full display for today’s tutorial as we go over how to…

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Save as JPG with Inkscape
It’s Finally Possible To Save As JPG with Inkscape! Here’s how…
 It’s Finally Possible To Save As JPG with Inkscape! Here’s how… 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Thanks to an update in version 1.1, it’s now possible to save as JPG with Inkscape. In previous generations, the only file format you could export your work to was PNG. All of that has changed though, and in this tutorial I’ll be going over how you can export a JPEG file for the designs…

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Delete a white background with Procreate
How To Delete A White Background with Procreate for The iPad
 How To Delete A White Background with Procreate for The iPad 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Of all the useful tools and capabilities Procreate comes with, one of its most noteworthy utilities is its ability to delete backgrounds from images. There’s various different ways of doing so, but in today’s tutorial we’ll be focusing on how to use Selections to delete a white background with Procreate, leaving a transparent background behind.…

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How To Make An Image Black and White with Illustrator
 How To Make An Image Black and White with Illustrator 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Despite the vector environment in which Illustrator operates, there’s various ways that you can edit photos and rasterized images. One of those ways would be making an image black and white — or more accurately, grayscale. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to make an image black and white with Illustrator so that…

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Export a PNG with a transparent background in Affinity Designer
How To Export A PNG With A Transparent Background In Affinity Designer
 How To Export A PNG With A Transparent Background In Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito
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One of the most common ways that you’ll use a vector design application like Affinity Designer is to design things like logos, icons, badges, and various other types of graphics. In order to work with these isolated graphics though, you’ll need to know how to export them in a usable format, which is what we’ll…

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Cut out a shape from an image with Inkscape
Cut Out A Shape From An Image with Inkscape
 Cut Out A Shape From An Image with Inkscape 800 470 Nick Saporito
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One of the most common ways users look to utilize Inkscape is using it as a means of fitting an image to a shape. This is a rather simple process that can be accomplished with clipping paths, and thanks to the non-destructive nature of working with clipping paths, this effect is completely reversible. Today’s tutorial…

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